Richmond Times-Dispatch du lieu suivant : Richmond, Virginia • 1

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Ia- 145450 cnular cloodJneM and eosttamd mild today High la the mid-M's Windy with bower to Largest Morning Circulation: la Virginia 40 Faces he 4 113th Year VofcNM in uniter 124 Richmond Virginia 23211 Wednesday November 20 1963 Milton 4-1851 5 Gents 1 Vote Law Amendments Cambodia Severs AidTies i ocuay Opposition Moves Are Beaten Easily By James Latimer The Virginia General Assembly stood ready last night to enact Governor Harrison's plan for plugging an expected hole in 61-year-old poll tax dike Test votes and soundings soon after the extra session convened yesterday indicated that final passage of the Harrison and adjournment of the extra session might come this afternoon or tonight Partial text of Governor's message on Page 6 (Staff Photo) Governor Harrison Addresses State Legislature Urges Flan to Guard of Our Woman 37 Found Shot to Death Here limited Scope of Extra Session Block Introduction of Poll Tax Repeal Bills Harrison administration forces in both houses quickly proved their strength by beating down opposition efforts to introduce poll tax repeal legislation Then after listening to the opponents for most of a 3i-hour public hearing House mid Senate committees prepared for probable floor action today The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee in a five-minute closed session gave the Harrison Mils its approval by a vote of 11 to 1 House Privileges and Elections Committee members agreed to meet at 10 am today Their lopsided approval of the Harrison program also is assured May Leave Toolght This means that when the Senate and House convene at noon today they will be In a position to finish their work and go home tonight if four-fifths majorities in each house agree to one speed-up motion Washington Denies Charges Of Sihanouk PHNOM PENH Cambodia Nov 20 lAV-Prince Norodom Sihanouk ruler of Cambodia Tuesday severed all economic and military ties with the United States Sihanouk charged that United State aid waa being used to undermine him Even as he spoke of his plan to scuttle the United States aid program the State Department in Washington was issuing instruction to the United States embassy in Phnom Penh to deny strongly that any American assistance was going to the rebels He announced his decision in a speech before an emergency session of his political party at a Phnom Penh stadium He told a wildly cheering crowd of youth corps members that American equipment had been used by rebel Cambodians operating from South Viet Nam- The United States embassy said it had received no official text of the denunciation nor had the embassy been formally notified of any change In relations with Cambodia It was expected such notification might come Wednesday An American spokesman described the development as "tragic if it is United States aid to Cambodia averages about 30 million dollars a year which is about the same figure as the national yearly deficit Funds generated by the American commercial import program in Cambodia pay for about 40 per cent of the upkeep of the small armed forces Sihanouk said that while he would atop receiving any form of American assistance he planned to maintain diplomatic ties with the United States There are currently about 300 American in official capacities in this nation of six million Including about 65 officers and men of the United States armed forces The cut would reduce the number of official Americans here to about 20 In Washington the State De- Con tinued on Page 16 Col 1 Life Restored After 43 Minutes MOSCOW Nov Surgeons in the city of Minsk recently revived a patient with an artificial heart after 43 minutes of clinical death the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday It said a 21-year-old surgery patient died on the operating table and the artificial heart machine was connected to the heart 38 minutes after the beginning of clinical death In five minutes first signs of life appeared and after 18 minutes the heart was restored to normal operation Izvestia reported that the man was recovering Senate Vote of 26-14 Main Impact Was to of a of A 37-yearold secretary waa found shot to death yesterday in her apartment in foe West End Henrico Detective Louis Browning said she appeared to have been murdered The body of Mrs Jean Geier of 5219 Monument ave was found nude in a bedroom She had been shot three times in the cheat and cut on the face and arms Browning the first policeman tha scene said -foe body was found lying on her bedroom floor beside her bed Shot With Automatic' She had been shot in the cheat with a 38-caliber automatic which waa found lying near the body The gun belongs to her husband and waa kept loaded in a dresser drawer for her protection Browning said Detective Montgomery said that there were no signs of forced entry into the first-floor apartment and neighbors who were questioned said they from Mary Washington College n5 Photo) 1 (Staff mote by Amir MsMotf) Senator Breeden Displays Poll lax Petitions He Urged Senate to Receive Repeal Measures in 1948 She taught for three years at the Pan-American School here a business and secretarial school Mrs Geier began work ing for Richmond Newspapers Inc in 1952 as a secretary in the national advertising department She worked for several years Continued on Page 2 Col 4 Bar Story Points to Spy 6 Frame 9 Thirty-one persona expressed their opinion of Governor proposed electiqn law amendments yesterday at a Si-hour public hearing in the hall the House of Delegates Of these only two spoke In favor of retaining the poll tax a prerequisite to voting in state and local elections The arguments wen presented before a joint session of the Senate and House Privi-: leges and Elections Committee While the committees had before them only the proposal for a certificate residence in federal elections they allowed the speakers to discuss the poll tax in general Speaking in support of the poll tax and the proposed plan were Robert Delano of Warsaw representing the Virginia Farm Bureau month in Russia gathering material for a bode: About 7:25 pm on October 31 the night before he planned to leave for Warsaw Barghoom was about to enter his the Metro pole when "a youngish looking approached him Hie man was a stranger as far as Barghoom can recall The young man "carried what looked to be a ndl of or printed material and asked Barghoom "are you an American "I was somewhat startled I stepped back a bit and I said Barghoom related "This very brief conversation between this stranger and me took place then he pushed toward me this roll of "Unwittingly perhaps Barghoom said he put the paper in his coat and "almost simultaneously a couple of men grabbed me and Continued on Page 16 Col 5 TODAY Federation and Pstteson Branch of Richmond Opposition waa expressed fay representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People the American Civil Liberties Union the stats AFL-CXO the state Republican party and the Virginia League of Women Vote Hie hearing opened a -few minutes after the scheduled 2 pm starting time A near-1 capacity crowd was on hand but other hearings at past Assemblies have drawn larger audiences Chairman Garland Gray of the Senate com mittee moved that Chairman John Warren Cooke of the House -committee preside Cooke invited Attorney General Button and Kenneth Patty assistant attorney general who drafted the bills for foe Governor to explain the proposed changes Button said the certificate of residence would be limply another manner of proving what already is required In Virginia that is proof of current residence to be eligible to vote Virginians who are registered and continue to pay the poll tax would be qualified to vote in all elections federal state and local Button noted Non-payers of the poll-tax might qualify to vote in federal elections only lnclud-ing primary and general elections for the President and members of Congress by filing the certificate of residence ix months before the November general election date These certificates either notarized or witnessed by an adult would be filed with the city or county treasurer This is the same official to whom poll taxes must be paid six months before election day as now for voting in all elections Of the two Harrison billslhe longer one gives in detail the changes in election law neces- Continued on Page I Col 1- UN Group Votes Ban On Latin A-Weapons That motion would be to dispense with the constitutional reading normally required for Editorial Comment Page 18 all bills so that members might debate and vote on the Harrison program today rather than spread the process over two or three days The Harrison troops were confident of the necessary 80 or more votes in the 100-member House It was uncertain whether they could count the 32 votes needed in the 40-man Senate Vote Margin In tests of which approved a resolution that in effect restricts the extra session to consider only the Harrison bills Governor Harrison and his Byrd organization colleagues won by 79-16 in the House and 26-14 in the Senate State Sen Edward Breeden Jr of Norfolk leader of the Senate opposition bloc indicated he would not try to obstruct or prolong the session but might Continued on Page 7 Col 1 that many roadblocks remained to be hurdled before that goal could be achieved The resolution waa approved 89-0 with 14 abstentions enough to assure a two-thirds majority required for ratification by the General Assembly 'It called upon the General Assembly to approve studies by the Latin American countries on how they can achieve agreement on outlawing nuclear weapons on their territories Eleven Latin American countries spearheaded by Brazil sponsored the resolution The abstainers included Cuba and these members of the Soviet Bulgaria Byelo Russia Chechoslovakia Hungary Mongolia Poland foe Ukraine and the Soviet Union Others were France Mali Tunisia Algeria and Venezuela Romania voted yes In general support of the nuclear-free zone principle Albania listed itself as non-participating It objected to reference in the resolution of the test ban treaty signed in Moscow Pearl From Earl Driving on superhighway! is like playing Russian roulette says the Catholic Digest You never know which driver is loaded UNITED NATIONS Nov The General main political committee approved a resolution Tuesday supporting the creation of a nuclear-free zone in Latin America But it was apparent from debate that preceded the vote Venezuelan Rebels WASHINGTON Nov 19-UP) Frederick Barghoom said Tuesday night he was seized by Soviet security men after an unidentified young man thrust a roll of papers into his hands in front of a Moscow hotel The Yale University professor giving newsmen the details of his 16-day confinement by the Soviets declined to say that he was deliberately on spy charges But his account given at the State Department pointed in that direction The 52-year-old Barghoom was freed after the United States government made many protests and President Kennedy publicly denied the professor was a spy Five-Hour Talk Barghoom talked with Stale Department officials for more than five hours before he met with newsmen He gave this account of his sudden imprisonment after a INSIDE did not hear anything Montgomery said that as far as they knew last night nothing was taken from the apartment The body was found by her husband Deane Geier when he returned from work about 4:30 pm He told police that the last time he saw her wag when he left for work about 8:30 am Police said they had very little to work with and no uspecta Mrs Geier was a part-time secretary for The Times-Dis-patch Her husband called foe newspaper yesterday morning saying his wife was ill and would not report for work Mrs Geier was bom in Richmond and attended Thomas Jefferson High School here from which foe was graduated in 1944 She was graduated Mantilla called the strike attempt a fiasco but shooting bombings and telephoned threats had the yaralyzing ef-threata had the paralyzing ef-Merchants dosed their doors after being warned that bombs would wreck their shops if they remained open Police forced many shops to reopen but they were closed again as soon as police left Tacks and nails were strewn in the streets during the night by the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN the underground arm of Communists and admirers of Prime Minister Castro of Cuba Bases Bombed Striking in various parts of the capital young terrorists burned four buses A bomb exploded harmlessly in the street outside foe interior ministry which directs the police Police bore the brunt of the early fighting Then they were joined by the armored cars and national guardsmen in battle dress Reports from Havana said With Army National Guard Landslides Floods 1011 500 Haitians PORT-AU-PRINCE Nov 19 UP) The public health department reported Tuesday about 500 persons were killed Thursday and Friday by floods and landslides It said thousands were homeless and estimated damage in the millions of dollars In one incident a bus was buried by a landslide near Camp Coq Saturday killing the driver and all 20 passengers SM Recovered The department said about 500 bodies have' been recovered so far and the death toll is expected to go higher All crops have been destroyed in the Grande Riviere du Nord area most prosperous In the country Port-au-Prince Is isolated from the northern regions spared by Hurricane Flora on October 8 but devastated last week because landslides caused by torrential rains cut communications The World Health Organization said more than 5000 persons were killed in Haiti by the hurricane Blasts Rip B52 Killing Three ROSWELL Nov Three sfitnen were killec explosions that rippe through an 8-million-dollar B32 jet bomber at the Strategic Air Command's Walker Air Force Base Tuesday Four servicemen were injured fighting the fire and another B32 was damaged by fire The bomber waa on the flight line undergoing routine maintenance checks a spokesman said and was ripped by an undetermined number of Battle Education Minister Armando Hart will close "solidarity week with the heroic fight of the Venezuelan with an address Thursday in Havana University square In Havana Monday night Jesua Soto secretary of the Cuban Workers Federation told a rally that "imperailism is afraid because the fight in Venezuela la the beginning of a fight for all the continent in one form or fifuke The Cliban press denounced what it says are plana of "Yankee imperialism to land their marines with the purpose of saving Betancourt from Betancourt hopes to be the first democratically elected president of Venezuela to finish a five-year term His administration is due to end next March Raul Leon! presidential candidate of Democratic Action party says Venezuela is the No 1 target of Castro Leonl is considered almost certain to win over six opponents DANVILLE mayor declines to resign rejects proposal entire council step down Page 5 ROMAN Catholic Priest critical of Knights of Columbus in South charges "they exemplify arch-segregationist segment" of church Page 9l UNITED STATES policy toward the new military-backed regime in South Viet Nam will be discussed today at a meet- that CARACAS Nov Army units and national guardsmen were called out in Caracas Tuesday to halt an outbreak of pro-Communist terror that all but paralyzed the capital Police and snipers fought it out in foe suburbs base of operations for the terrorists Unofficial reports said 19 persons were killed and 70 wounded The interior ministry said more than 100 terrorists were arrested Egged on by Communist Cuba the Venezuela under-ground intensified its campaign to unseat President Romulo government or to disrupt presidential elections scheduled for December 1 Schools Closed Reports from the interior said other cities were under the same terrorist offensive Schools for American children were dosed Unions scorned a Red underground call for a general strike to begin in the early morning hours Interior Minister Manuel MnByi i I 1 1 I 4 I.